THE doors will open at a new multi-million pound school building next week.

A total of 500 pupils who attend Huntcliff School in Saltburn will start Monday’s new term in the building they have seen being built over the past 13 months.

The opening of the new building will represent the first phase of a £16m Government-funded Saltburn Learning Campus.

Saltburn Primary School, which is on a split site in the town, will move to the campus next September.

The campus will also open Saltburn Youth Club later this month and there will be adult education classes, with courses in cake decorating for beginners, pilates, crystal therapy, card-making and free adult literacy and numeracy classes.

Facilities at the new Huntcliff School include an outdoor amphitheatre, an atrium and a resource centre as well as interactive white boards in all classrooms.

Headteacher Ruth Headdon said: “We’re moving out of a 50-year-old school after achieving our best ever GCSE five A* to C grades - a fantastic 79% - and now we’re entering an exciting new era with school buildings fit for the 21st century.

“We’ve got excellent facilities for our students and the wider community.

“We asked the students what they would like and they’re going to be delighted.”

Students will wear a new school uniform. The old ones are going to The Smiles Foundation, a charity which supports orphanages in Romania.

For information about adult classes call community co-ordinator Heather Ollerenshaw on 01287 621010.